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Portland/Observer Dec. 16, 1971 Urban League PSU hosts theater The American College Re gional Theater Festival with eight participating colleges and universities w ill be hosted by the Portland State Theater January 10-15. Participants w ill he com peting fo r the chance to go to Washington D x . in May to perform at the national Am er ican College Theater Festival in the new John F . Kennedy Center fo r the Performing A rts . TheNorthwestwas rep resented lis t year by Whitman College. The program fo r the Jan uary Festival w ill offer a wide range of plays all w ritten or translated since World War u by Russian, French, English, Greek, German, Swiss and American playwrights. Each play w ill be performed only once. There w ill be an 8:15 performance every even ing January 10-15 as well as two matinees at 2:15 p jn .J a n uary 10-11. The following student pro ductions w ill be performed in Old Main’ s PSU T heater the U niversity of Puget Sound’ s "T h e Physicists’ ’ by Duren- matt; the University of Seat tle ’ s "H e Who Gets Slapped” by Andreyev; Washington State U niversity’ s "Rosencrantz and GuildenstemareDead” by- Stoppard; Eastern Washington State College’ s " E le c tra " by Euripedes; Olympic College’ s "M arat/Sade” by Weiss; Western Washington State College's " A Man fo r A ll Sea sons" by Bolq and PSU’ s "The Misanthrope” by M oliere. The eighth entry, the U n i versity of PortlanJ’ s "C itize n Tom Paine" by Foster w ill be performed in the Buckley Center Auditorium. Vernon Jordon, executive d ire c to r of the National Urban League, declared that the cen tra l c iv il rights Issue of the Seventies Is the restructuring of Am erica’ s economic and political power so that black people w ill have their share of the rewards, the respons ib ilitie s arxl the decision making m every sector of so ciety. Participants in workshop fo r race relations. DENTAL PLATES PARTIAL PLATES AND EXTRACTIONS Immediate Restorations R lo s .s m s . r s . s im m e d ia te ly a l t e r t e e t h e re e x tra c te d HEW holds workshop The Western Interstate Commission fo r Higher Edu cation held a four day seminar in Portland December 9th to December 12th. This is a na tionwide educational program dealing in corrections, on how to get involved with m in o rity groups. The meetings were held at Highland Community Center and Albina Youth Op portunity School. Representatives from Mac- Laren's School fo r Boy’ s, H illc re s t School fo r C ir l’ sand the OregonCorrectional Insti tute were involved, along with ex-inmates of these institu tions. Interested members of the community were also pre sent. The ex-inmates from O .C .I. told how hard it was to adjust and to be accepted after their release. They also told ofthe many personal problems they found themselves up against Seven additional members have been elected to the 5Leer- ing Committee of The National Urban Coalition, Chairman Sol M . Linow itz announced today. The Coalition, which was founded after the urban riots of 1967, brings together busi ness, labor, racial and ethnic m inorities, religious and other groups fo r jo in t action on urban concerns. The 86- member Steering Committee establishes policy fo r the organization, which has local affiliates in 38 citie s . Those elected, at a regular meeting of the Executive Com mittee in New York C ity , were; Hilda Hidalgo, Chairman, De partment of U r.» n A ffa irs , Rutgers U niversity, New Brunswick, N J . D r. John LJS. Holloman, J r , Chairman, Health Manpower A dvisory Board, New York C ity . Barbara M ikulski, Member, C lty Counc 11, Baltimore, Md. Antonia Pantoja, Executive D lrecyor, Puerto Rican Re search andResourceCenter, New York C ity. SLEEP SCMLEN B U ILO IN G 5 .W . 3r<J A M o rris o n P o r tla n d . O r e g o n Phone: SALEM OFFICE Howard Stein, Chairman, Dreyfus Fund, New York C ity. Irene Tovar, Coordinator,San Fernando Valley State Col lege, C alifornia. Francisco T rilla , National Chairman, Puerto Rican Association for National A ffa irs , New York C ity. A t the same meeting,Chair man Linowitz announced that WXf. Eberle had resigned as Co-chairman to devote more time to his new duties as Special Representative for Trade Negotiation fo r the United States. RemainlngCo chairmen are Andrew Heis- kell. Chairman of the Board, Time, Inc., and Vernon E. Jordan, J r., President of The National Urban Leaeue. I f y o u d o n ’t see y o u r m e r c h a n t ’s a d in The O b s e r v e r , a s k h im w h y . I corrections workers rap about Jordon said black people In the Seventies w ill no longer t* comforted by singing " a in ’ t gonna let nobody turn us round" as they did in the Sixties "because when they see tlie new Supreme Court, they’ ll know we’ve been turn ed around." "T he fact today Is that not only are hei feet tired, and her soul is not rested, but tested, because her s p irit is broken and low.” He said the issue of the Sixties was the right to alt on the bus, but today the Issue is where that bus Is going and what it costs to get there. Start banking instead of just going to the bank. The Urban League w ill in stitute a voter registration program among blacks in the North. He urged blacks not to be satisfied with the few blacks elected to public office. A l though black people make up twelve per cent of the pop ulation, they hold only three tenths of one per cent of Am er ica’ s elected officials. VERNON IORDAN JR. "B la c k people w ill no long e r find the game inspiration in the words of the black woman walking in the Montgomery his boycott who sad, 'M y teets is tina.1, but m y s ul is restMt • PCC transports handicapped DR. JEFFREY MODERN LIFELIKE sets goal are s till going through. This seminar was funded by the Department of Health, Ed ucation and Welfare. M r.P aul Ries, D ire cto r, Western In terstate C o m m is s io n fo r Higher Education and M r. Al Tate, assistant D ire c to r and also black psychiatrist fio m the U niversity of Colorado, led the seminars. M r. Tate also gave a talk on Black H isto ry- Lost, Stolen or Strayed. ty A new program at Portland Community College isopening the door to new careers fo r the physically handicapped. Financed by a grant from the Oregon Board of Edu cation, the PCC program pro vides transportation— a spe c ia lly equipped bus with a power lif t and trek fo r wheel chairs - - career counseling, and the opportunity fo r anyone to enter the program of their choice. There are 800 people in the Portland area using wheel chairs; only 400 are active. This is due in part to fa c ili ties which . have not been planned to accommodate wheelchairs. Portland Com munity College, Sylvania, has been designed so that a person using a wheelchair can move easily and independently to all areas of the education center. The program is not restricted to people in wheelchairs: any handicapped ;<ei son is encour aged to participate. The purpose of the new project ia to provide handi capped persons with the op portunity to change occupa tions, to find a career or new career, or to upgrade skills. V irg in ia Ruggles, assistant coordinator, transports han dicapped persons to PCC’ s Sylvania center fo r tours and conferences with counselors and Instructors. Over 100 Checking Account ■ Automatic Savings Statement Savings ■ BankAmericard Money Minder* Service ■ Safety Deposit Boxes ■ Loans ■ Customized Payroll Service ■ Investment Bonds ■ Trusts different career programs are offer ed at PCC, and counse lors can help a handicapped person to select a career suitai to his interests and capabilities. Career explora tion, including aptitude and interest tests, are provided. F o r more information about Careers and Transportation fo r the Physically handl- capped, contact Virgina Rug gles, Portland Community BANK United States National Bank of Oregon College, 244-6111. David Nero If you are Black this a rti motive fo r the inability of cle w ill hardly be informative. m inorities to share the ad You've heard it before and vantages of employment and you may even agree by giving ail that brings to a fam ily the w rite r a "R ig h t On!” If unit. That there is truth to you are white and liberal you the prejudice is manifest less may agree and sentamenta- openly today but I believe it lize . If you are white, a pro is as firm 11 y entenched as fessional man with influence ever before. Proof exists in then notice now I am d ire c t the exercise of quotas fo r ing this to you. You too have government contracts, re heard it all before — Equal porting of m inorities both as Employment Opportunity. You required by contract and in may in fact sincerely believe cases where it isn’ t required. that great progress has been These are the most obvious made in gaining employment indications. fo r m inorities. 1 could agree with you, but if I did would Who has the answer to the either of us hope to make problem emerging from that which is great better? racism should step forward. 1 believe that the policy We would hall him o r her makers have indeed done much with as much tribute as the to alleviate discrim ination. firs t man on the moon or would But I know from experience we? that policies especially rela tive to race problems are slow 1 don’ t claim to have the to become practiced. I ask answer to discrim ination, nor simply M r. President or Vice do 1 mean to w rite of it here. President check your person 1 w rite with the remotest hope nel managers to see if pro that someone who has it within gress is being made and the his power to change personnel extent of it. Is your policy hiring policies w ill question being implemented? the need fo r change. Does It comes as no surprise there exist a public official in to m inorities in the Model the state or city who seriously Neighborhood that their rate would meet to discuss Equal of unemployment conslstantly Opportunity? Is there in up rates twice as high as for per managment a man who whites. This holds true in would discuss with members tim es such as the present of Portland’ s m inorities their when the economy is soft as experiences, their hopes arxi well as when there is so may even listen to a solution? called b ill employment. The problem remains that Government can pump even with Equal Opportunity money forever into social pro Employment laws few if any grams but the best solution eaders in business ask why remains in the hands of p ri m lnorites are last hired and vate enterprise. Should p ri f ir s t fire d . Usually the rea vate enterprise deckle to con sons given are based upon tinue to pay-off unemployment “ lack of qualifications.” But with poverty doles in all form s obviously the qualification then the future lo r m inorities factors while they exist need w ill remain as it is — rather to be recognized as symptoms. bleak. The question should be why are there not an equal number On the contrary should p ri of qualified Blacks, Chicanos, vate enterprise seek a solu Native Americans or other tion to the problems of m inori m in o ritie s to the white popu ties in seeking to fu llfill one lation? It seems to me that of th e A m e ric a n d re a m -b e n e - the answer lies partly in the fits according to potential to Inequality of experience op produce then there can be portunities fo r m inorities— social progress and equality. — social and educational. Since environment influences It would seem feasible that behavior to a great extent the private enterprise could conditions of substandard work (with Ferlerai dollars housing, diets and general liv if needed) to make Equal Op ing conditions is again ob portunity a reality. We are viously based upon earning too often with government power. funded agencies training The viscous c irc le of poor people where there are no means is self oerpetuating— jobs. Couldn’ t industry use — no income, poor educational the money more efficiently performance with resultant and guarantee a job after low achievement level, the training? end result is that the dis Who would loose? Not in advantaged are not able to dustry. T heir stock holders compete with those who had would see no change In pro the good fortune of being re a r fits . Not the politician whose ed in a fa m ily with financial constituency becomes em sta b ility. ployed. Not the people trained But again, why? In speak who could become "m o re and ing to those who decide upon better qualified” by exper personnel hiring policies, it ience. Certainly not the coun is quite evident that racial try which teaches liber ty and prejudice is s till a p rim a ry Justice fo r a ll. 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